Alexander Cockburn Quotes
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
